Crime Statistics for calendar year ending 31 December 2008

Released 1 April 2009

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Introduction

The statistics in this document come from the Police National Intelligence Application (N.I.A) These Official Crime Statistics present a snapshot of data in N.I.A. relating to offences within a given year, as at the date 14 days following the end of that year.

A Recorded Offence is an incident reported or detected by Police. The offence is considered a Resolved Cffence when an offender has been identified and dealt with (warned, cautioned or prosecuted).

Please note: If an offence is resolved 15 days or more after the end of the year it will not appear in the Official Crime Statistics for that or any other year. The Resolution Rate therefore undercounts the number of cases that Police have resolved. This phenomenon has a more marked impact for some types of offences than others, such as offences that require long investigations (E.g. many serial crimes, burglaries and murders).

The Resolution Rate is the percentage of Recorded Offences that are resolved.

Graph 1 illustrates the overall recorded offences per 10,000 population. While Graph 2 illustrates the overall resolution rate (% of recorded offences that are resolved):